How Words Mean Thomas Aquinas

3. In his work “How Words Mean” Thomas Aquinas’ assertion to the idea first developed by Aristotle “in composing and dividing … truth and falsity are found” debates the existence of these forces in the first place and then remarks that truth and falsehood are in opposition to each other. However, just as truth exists in the intellect but “the intellect does not know truth except by composing and dividing through its judgment.” it is clear that falsehood is found in the exact same way. Truth, as defined by Aquinas, is the conformity of the thing which is being presented and the intellect which judges it to be true. Sensory cognition alone does not have the understanding of divisibles which seem to be necessary in order to define truth and falsehood in the first place, as it only involves the use of the senses for perception. Intellectual cognition however deals with the immaterial and gives humans the ability to arrange the
The Legenda Auria could be somewhat misogynistic in the fact that perhaps the male population which made up the majority of the clergy automatically believed that all women are inherently prone to the desires of the flesh and females that turn away from this should be considered noble and worthy of sainthood.
Personally I might venture to say that these stories about female saints could have been exaggerated, as many such hagiographies were, so that women would hear these stories and be encouraged to follow in footsteps not necessarily made by the saints themselves but rather those men writing about the saints. I do believe however, the Legenda Auria was almost certainly a mixture of misogyny and admiration for women, perhaps in an attempt to capture the negative and positive influence we can have over the opposite